Look, I don’t want to appear mean, but I really feel that I must call out Dominic Raab, the deputy prime minister. He was being interviewed by Matt Frei on Channel 4 News last week about events in Ukraine and he began nearly all his replies to a question with the word “look”. It became so annoying that I failed fully to listen to his answers, which could of course have been his intention. It was only marginally less irritating than those who respond to a question with “so”.
Talking of Ukraine, I was reading Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph last week and he dropped this one in my lap: “Will Russia’s patriotic generals agree to devastate the Varangian cradle of Kievan Mother Rus with cluster bombs? I doubt it.” Varangian cradle? Completely new to me.
